NGC 1347 NED01
NGC 1347 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
83 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
24k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 83 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1347 NED01 as it looked roughly 83 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 1962Barred spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 1377Lenticular3.1 million ly
apartIC 1952Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 1953Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 1315Lenticular4.6 million ly
apartNGC 1395Elliptical4.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1377Lenticular3.1 million ly
apartIC 1952Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 1953Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 1315Lenticular4.6 million ly
apartNGC 1395Elliptical4.9 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).